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vRealize Orchestrator 8.1 Highlights

Markus Kraus 10. March 2020 VMware, vRealize 3 Comments
It’s been a while since I published anything about vRealize Orchestrator here. Besides Ansible and PowerCLI, the vRealize Orchestrator is still my first choice for the reliable automation of …
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Script – PowerCLI VM Disk Report

Markus Kraus 9. March 2020 PowerCLI, Scripts, VMware, vSphere No Comments
Recently I had to create VMware vSphere VMs with a whole bunch of virtual disks. The application running inside of the virtual machines required a special disk layout and …
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Veeam Availability Suite 10 unattended installation

Markus Kraus 5. February 2020 Ansible, Veeam No Comments
Since Veeam has recently published the Veeam ONE 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication 10 RTM Build for Partners and Service Providers, I wanted to get my Veeam Availability …
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PRTG Veeam Sensor – Retrospective

Markus Kraus 27. January 2020 PowerShell, Veeam 31 Comments
In 2016 I never thought that almost four years later I would still be working on my PowerShell script for a PRTG Veeam Sensor. But even shortly after the …
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Set persistent scratch location with PowerCLI

Markus Kraus 14. January 2020 VMware, vSphere No Comments
In common server configurations for VMware ESXi Hosts, the boot device is usually an SD-Card or a USB stick. These devices are cheap, require very low-maintenance and have a …
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NetApp NFS Export with Ansible

Markus Kraus 12. November 2019 Ansible, NetApp 2 Comments
For some time now I have been focusing more on NetApp Data ONTAP again. As usual, automation is a spotlight of my interest. NetApp offers a lot of options …
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Veeam ONE unattended installation with Ansible

Markus Kraus 30. September 2019 Ansible, Veeam No Comments
My new hobby project, Veeam ONE unattended installation with Ansible, was pretty interesting for me because of two reasons. First of all, I’ve never taken a closer look at …
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Veeam and vSphere Tag Integration with Ansible

Markus Kraus 9. September 2019 Ansible, Veeam, VMware, vSphere No Comments
VMware vSphere Tags are a great tool to build a deep integration with other VMware or third-party products. Veeam already could use vSphere Tags as a backup object in …
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Ansible Veeam Modules Preview

Markus Kraus 9. July 2019 Ansible, Veeam 4 Comments
Creating an initial set of Ansible Veeam modules has been my goal for a while. It was clear that this had to be possible with the Ansible concept of …
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Veeam unattended installation with Ansible

Markus Kraus 17. June 2019 Ansible, Veeam No Comments
There are already a lot of great projects out there for the Veeam unattended installation. One of the most advanced projects is for sure the Chef cookbook for Veeam …
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vSphere VM Security Configuration with Ansible

Markus Kraus 27. May 2019 Ansible, VMware 4 Comments
Since security is a requirement for the complete infrastructure stack, we will cover the vSphere VM Security Configuration with Ansible in this article. One of my prior posts has …
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CA signed vCenter Certificate from XCA

Markus Kraus 13. May 2019 Allgemein, VMware, vSphere 1 Comment
For a small lab or test environment is a full CA setup far too much effort. So, I have decided to create a new root and intermediate CA with …
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VMware ESXi Security Configuration with Ansible

Markus Kraus 9. April 2019 Allgemein, Ansible, VMware, vSphere 10 Comments
If you read the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide you will agree that the security configuration of VMware ESXi hosts is mostly about managing services, advanced options, …
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My Ansible Development Setup

Markus Kraus 18. March 2019 Ansible 9 Comments
A few weeks ago I started digging into the Ansible universe. One of the first things I learned was the need for a proper Ansible Development Setup. My common …
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Atlassian Bamboo PowerShell Pester Integration

Markus Kraus 11. March 2019 PowerShell No Comments
Some time ago I have moved one of my PowerShell projects to a new Atlassian Bitbucket server with Bamboo connection for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. To continue using …
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